Name Susan Alamo | ||
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Died April 8, 1982, Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States | ||
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Susan Alamo, née Edith Opal Horn (April 25, 1925 – April 8, 1982) was an American religious figure, cofounder with her husband of the Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation.
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- Eating out of garbage cans tony and susan alamo members did they eat out of garbage cans
- Susan alamo the audacity of me talking about her
- Life
- Death aftermath
- References
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Life
Susan Alamo, born Edith Opal Horn, was born in Alma, Arkansas. Twice married and with a daughter, she came to Hollywood in the attempt to become an actress. Converting to Christianity, she became an itinerant evangelist before meeting aspiring pop singer Mark Hoffman, born as Bernard Lazar Hoffman, and also known as Marcus Abad.
After divorcing their respective spouses, Horn and Hoffman married in a 1966 Las Vegas ceremony, legally changing their names to Tony and Susan Alamo.
The couple founded the Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation as a Christian street ministry in Southern California. They moved to Arkansas, using their religious followers as volunteer labourers for a variety of business interests, including Nashville's largest country and western clothing store.
Death & aftermath
Susan Alamo died of breast cancer in 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the City of Faith hospital. In the reported belief that she would rise from the dead, her embalmed body was kept on display for six months, before being entombed in a heart-shaped marble mausoleum on church property.
In 1991 the government confiscated the property, finding when they arrived that Susan's body had been removed by her husband. Her estranged daughter, Christhiaon Coie, brought a suit against Tony for stealing the body, and her stepfather obtained a court order requiring the body to be returned.